{"id":5640,"date":"2026-03-10T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/5640\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:45:09","slug":"belgium-synagogue-explosion-labelled-a-despicable-antisemitic-act-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/5640\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium synagogue explosion labelled a \u2018despicable antisemitic act\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Mon, March 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM UTC\"Police<\/p>\n

Police secure an area after a blast near a synagogue in Liege, Belgium (AP)<\/p>\n

Belgium\u2019s interior minister has labelled an explosion near a synagogue a \u201cdespicable antisemitic act\u201d.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors are investigating following the blast overnight in the city of Liege, in the country\u2019s east.<\/p>\n

It comes as several countries across Europe tighten their security due to the US-Israel war on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Local police said that the blast outside of the synagogue happened in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n

No one was injured but the windows of a building in front of the synagogue were blown out.<\/p>\n

The street remained blocked off while investigators combed the area, a statement said.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A synagogue damaged by an explosion early on Monday, in Liege, Belgium (Reuters)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe explosion in front of the Liege synagogue was a despicable antisemitic act that directly targeted the Jewish community of Belgium,\u201d Belgian Interior Minister Bernard Quintin said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecurity around similar sites will continue to be strengthened.\u201d<\/p>\n

He made no link between the blast and the Iran war.<\/p>\n

Belgium, France and Germany are among a number of European countries that have said they intended to beef up security<\/a> in response to the war, which broke out on 28 February.<\/p>\n

They have also insisted that they are playing no active role in the conflict alongside the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n

Belgium’s transport minister has demanded that security be tightened around the country’s rail network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, March 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM UTC Police secure an area after a blast near a synagogue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,3978,3971,3969],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-federal-prosecutors","tag-liege","tag-synagogue"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116206366196666650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}